The contagious bacterial infection, also known as Shigella, usually involves symptoms that include diarrhea, fever and stomach pains, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Symptoms, which sometimes do not develop until days after the initial infection, can be very serious and in rare cases deadly, experts said. The germs that cause Shigella infections spread easily ...

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Shigellosis is an acute diarrhoeal disease ... A thorough sexual history, overlapping symptoms, and screening for parasitic, enteric, and STI infections are important to identify possible ...

Illustration by Stephanie Rossow via Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Lane County health officials are warning of an increase in an uncommon infectious bacteria. The county in Oregon has ...